Improved analysis adds several microproteins to the human proteome, and suggests a path toward identifying thousands more ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote. Twenty-five ...

J. Craig Venter, who mapped the first draft of the human genome and helped scientists understand how genes shape our lives, ...

NIH funding has allowed scientists to see the DNA blueprints of human life—completely. In 2022, the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium, a group of NIH-funded scientists from research institutions around ...

It is still not fully understood how, despite having the same set of genes, cells turn into neurons, bones, skin, heart, or roughly 200 other kinds of cells, and then exhibit stable cellular behavior ...

Decades after researches first sequenced the human genome, scientists throughout the world are still working to understand it ...